Issue # and location
Issue summary
A provider may have multiple addresses through work at multiple facilities. This can result in multiple locations associated with care (e.g. provider address and provider location).
Convention type
Global
CDM table
NA
CDM field
NA
Links to issue discussion
Provenance of data
General, any database with provider location information
The ratified convention
The CDM allows us to capture location of visits, so knowing where a patient was treated is quantified in the CDM. If a provider has multiple addresses the ETL should just choose one to associate with the provider in the PROVIDER table as the analytical use case for storing multiple addresses per provider is unknown.
The question of how to handle a situation where the billing address differs from where the patient received care is already handled in the CDM. The VISIT_OCCURRENCE table has a separate PROVIDER_ID and CARE_SITE_ID for expressly this purpose.
Date of ratification/published
Nov 27, 2018
Downstream implications
No
Link to DQD check
No. The isPrimaryKey check will make sure the provider ids are not duplicated in the PROVIDER table but there is no explicit check for the same provider_source_value and different location_ids
Related conventions/further information
NA